Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig
[Typological Studies in Language, 134] 2022. viii, 437 pp.
Birgit Hellwig
List of John Benjamins publications for which Birgit Hellwig plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2022. Expressing events of directed caused accompanied motion in Qaqet. Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, Margetts, Anna, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 341–368
This chapter investigates the expression of directed caused accompanied motion (directed CAM) events in Qaqet, a Baining language of Papua New Guinea. Qaqet employs a complex CAM expression that consists of an intransitive motion verb plus valency-changing elements, and the chapter describes this… read more | Chapter
2022. Events of caused accompanied motion in Qaqet and Dëne Sųłıné child language corpora. Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, Margetts, Anna, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 397–434
This chapter investigates the expression of directed caused accompanied motion (directed CAM) events in child language corpora of Qaqet (a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea) and Dëne Sųłıné (a Dene language of Canada). Both languages employ complex CAM expressions. The chapter briefly introduces… read more | Chapter
2022. Bringing and taking: A cross-linguistic perspective on caused accompanied motion events. Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, Margetts, Anna, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 1–41
This chapter proposes a typology of expressions of directed caused accompanied motion (directed CAM): it introduces and defines this semantic domain, presents the corpus-based methodology used by the authors of this volume, and gives an overview of the results. It shows that directed CAM… read more | Chapter
2019. Grammatical relations in Katla. Argument Selectors: A new perspective on grammatical relations, Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena and Balthasar Bickel (eds.), pp. 511–531
This chapter describes grammatical relations in Katla, a Niger-Congo language of Sudan. Katla exhibits a close match between semantic and syntactic valency, and monovalent, bivalent and trivalent verbs can be distinguished by their ability to occur with one, two or three unmarked arguments… read more | Chapter
2018. Reference tracking in Tima and its interplay with split ergative marking. Studies in Language 42:4, pp. 970–993
Tima, a Niger-Congo language of the Sudan, shows signs of split ergativity. If its constituent order deviates from the basic AVO order to OVA order, the postverbal agent is formally marked, unlike preverbal agents. A direct object, regardless of its position relative to the verb, is never marked.… read more | Article
2017. Chapter 11. Emotions in Goemai (Nigeria): Perspectives from a documentary corpus. Consensus and Dissent: Negotiating Emotion in the Public Space, Storch, Anne (ed.), pp. 213–228
A central goal of language documentation is to create corpora that are multipurpose and can be used to investigate topics that they were not intended for. Such corpora have started to increasingly become available over the past few years. This contribution takes a language documentation perspective… read more | Chapter
2010. Meaning and translation in linguistic fieldwork. Studies in Language 34:4, pp. 802–831
This paper is set within the context of semantic typology, focusing on the collection of semantic data during fieldwork on under-described languages. The study explores central issues of meaning and translation through the example of the investigation of the lexical meaning and part of speech of… read more | Article